Battle Royale shooter "PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS" which was delivered from Bluehole in 2017, and immediately captured gamers all over the world for a moment. This work did not express its appearance suddenly, there was a long history of five years even before the popularity exploded. In this article, we will press about its progress.
■ "Arma 2" era - "ARMA 2: DayZ Battle Royale Mod"
Suddenly I want to approach the origin of "PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS", but first you need to mention the "Arma" series that supported that existence and "DayZ".
· What is "Arma"?
"Arma" whose name rises frequently in the topic of "PUBG". "Arma" series is a military sandbox title developed by Bohemia Interactive, if briefly explained. It is a real FPS capable of handling a 10 km square map and a ride, but the biggest feature is that it is a mission-based game content that can be scripted very highly, and that it has a powerful in-game editor Yes.
It will be easy to understand if you think that the content of the game will be totally different depending on the mission that was read. From the outdoor unit action like "Ghost Recon", dramatic content such as "Call of Duty", festivities like "Battlefield", content unexpected other than that It can be reproduced.
· What is "DayZ"?
Born in such a trend, "DayZ" revolutionized the survival genre. This is a mechanism that implements survival system such as hungry and "Arma 2", special zombie elements and minimum server-related parts with Mod, and the game engine moves the zombie survival mission. A unique tension and air generated by introducing a survival genre-like mechanism originally in the real system "Arma" base, as a prisoner of the users of the whole world, the rise of countlessly derived and survival genres It has sprang up.
Born in such a flow, the battle loyal title "ARMA 2: DayZ Battle Royale Mod" for the first time by PLAYERUNKNOWN in 2013. Due to the transition to "Arma 3" and standalone "DayZ", this "ARMA 2: DayZ Battle Royale Mod" is currently unavailable for download, but many users posted images It is possible to taste the atmosphere of those days. In the video, not only the part which does not change as "PUBG", but also the part closer to "Battle Royale" than other methods such as starting a game, you will be able to discover various other things. In addition, there are many people who touched the game for the first time in "PUBG" About the "zero in" of the gun is also "Arma 2" that was mounted on the engine side.
Actually, the idea of doing a battle royal with "Arma" was not the first time Mr. PLAYERUNKNOWN realized, but some things of such content in the form of a single multi-mission were made before. It was thought that "ARMA 2: DayZ Battle Royale Mod" was particularly excellent was the part that was able to reflect the further reality or the "battle loyal" air which was based on the "Day Z" base.
In parallel with the appearance of "ARMA 2: DayZ Battle Royale Mod" in "Arma", the development of the new work "Arma 3" and early access to the alpha version had been done. This "Arma 3" became the official version in September of the same year. Also, shortly after "DayZ" which was proud of the explosive popularity, a story about standalone emerged. As a result of this change, "ARMA 2: DayZ Battle Royale Mod" is also a new Mod 'PLAYERUNKNOWN' which is familiar to everyone as "PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEROYALE (PUBR)" now, "Arma 3 "It appeared in 2014 to the end.
"PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEROYALE (PUBR)" is still available for download from the Steam Workshop and you can also play new. As you can see the video by the user, as you can see entry by aircraft (parachutes do not open automatically, if you do not adjust speed yourself, you will crash the ground), the basic elements of "PUBG" It can be said that you are almost looking at completion at the time. By the way, the aircraft at the start of "PUBR" has been bombarded after the players' descent has started, and it seems that this homage is the place where "PUBG" aircraft crashed.
From the "DayZ" who built the era of the survival genre, a lot of influenced titles were born. "H1Z1" to introduce from now is one such title. "H1Z1" was announced by Daybreak Game which was then "Sony Online Entertainment" in April 2014. From the affiliate of Sony, the information that a very hot zombie survival title will be released at that time gathers great expectations from many gamers.
In the same work which was released as an early access title in January 2015, a certain interpersonal specialization mode was introduced. That is "Battle Royale" mode. In other words, it is a mode that faithfully ported "PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEROYALE". This mode is implemented in a way that Mr. PLAYERUNKNOWN licenses according to the offer from "H1Z1" development, and from this work to the third person main, elements of the fog of poison outside the area became first appearance It was. You can see that it is more like "PUBG" in the user's image etc.
· Go to "H1Z1: King of the Kill"
After that, "H1Z1" will make a decision to split the title, with the delay of development that zombies survival title is prone to fall and the inclination of player preferences to interpersonal. Thus the battle royal mode which was divided as "H1Z1: King of the Kill" is still growing to a title that keeps the number of Steam players high.
■ "PUBG" appeared
After these flows, under the direction of Mr. PLAYERUNKNOWN, "PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS" was supposed to be made as a completely new battle royal title. "PUBG" was first announced at the end of June 2016. At that time, it was announced as a title of 64 players instead of 100 players.
· Limited time closed test
After that, at the end of July 2016, pre-alpha was carried out, while publishing various developed videos etc., "PUBG" proceeded, the first alpha in September of the same year and the second alpha in November were implemented It is. Various updates were done at Alpha, and reports on the participating areas of testers etc. are also released for each test. At that time you can hear that there were few participants from Asia including Japan. You can also see that user size jumped from Alpha 2. (Pre-alpha report, alpha 1 report, alpha 2 report)
Time goes on in 2017, closed from February 24th to March 19th, closed beta is held on weekends only. During the closed beta implementation of the squad, shifting to a 100-person battle where everyone knows well was done. In addition, in the reservation made shortly from March, as a privilege, limited item skin "PLAYERUNKNOWN SET" which is worth more than tens of thousands of yen to 100,000 yen or more at the time of writing this article is distributed I will.
· Start Steam Early Access, and to the Legend
While "PUBG" is closed test, it is difficult to exactly know exactly how the user's transition occurred in the scale, but according to the service "Google Trends" showing Google search interest, "PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS" The search popularity first jumped up from February 19th to the 25th of 2017. This overlaps with the start of the closed beta, and it was the most notable time since March 18th to April 1st just before the beta showed excitement that was unprecedented. Early access to Steam has started from March 23, and from the time immediately after release, it can be said that the popularity of this work has exploded from streaming distribution and reviews, especially explosively.
Also, for Japanese players, "Early access to Japanese" was also very large at the beginning of early access. I think that it is a point that supports an unusual response as PC games that it is more than hundreds of thousands of sales in Japan that I could acquire as a new user without hesitating to interested gamers.
Aside from that, Bohemia Interactive of "Arma" development, which was indispensable to the formation of "PUBG", and PLAYERUNKNOWN are still maintaining that relationship, according to previous overseas interviews etc., "PUBG "Motion capture at least for the moment is done in the company facilities in the Czech Republic. Also, "PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEROYALE" PLAYERUNKNOWN also maintains some of its servers at their own expense.
Looking back on this way, Mr. PLAYERUNKNOWN, who became a momentary person, was not fascinated by the genre called Battle Royale, not the idea man who suddenly received that grace from heaven, and it can not be said that it is an investigator who keeps searching for the way Is it? Mr.'s future success, and where does "PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS" arrive? I can not keep my eyes still.
■ "Arma 2" era - "ARMA 2: DayZ Battle Royale Mod"
Suddenly I want to approach the origin of "PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS", but first you need to mention the "Arma" series that supported that existence and "DayZ".
· What is "Arma"?
"Arma" whose name rises frequently in the topic of "PUBG". "Arma" series is a military sandbox title developed by Bohemia Interactive, if briefly explained. It is a real FPS capable of handling a 10 km square map and a ride, but the biggest feature is that it is a mission-based game content that can be scripted very highly, and that it has a powerful in-game editor Yes.
It will be easy to understand if you think that the content of the game will be totally different depending on the mission that was read. From the outdoor unit action like "Ghost Recon", dramatic content such as "Call of Duty", festivities like "Battlefield", content unexpected other than that It can be reproduced.
· What is "DayZ"?
Born in such a trend, "DayZ" revolutionized the survival genre. This is a mechanism that implements survival system such as hungry and "Arma 2", special zombie elements and minimum server-related parts with Mod, and the game engine moves the zombie survival mission. A unique tension and air generated by introducing a survival genre-like mechanism originally in the real system "Arma" base, as a prisoner of the users of the whole world, the rise of countlessly derived and survival genres It has sprang up.
Born in such a flow, the battle loyal title "ARMA 2: DayZ Battle Royale Mod" for the first time by PLAYERUNKNOWN in 2013. Due to the transition to "Arma 3" and standalone "DayZ", this "ARMA 2: DayZ Battle Royale Mod" is currently unavailable for download, but many users posted images It is possible to taste the atmosphere of those days. In the video, not only the part which does not change as "PUBG", but also the part closer to "Battle Royale" than other methods such as starting a game, you will be able to discover various other things. In addition, there are many people who touched the game for the first time in "PUBG" About the "zero in" of the gun is also "Arma 2" that was mounted on the engine side.
Actually, the idea of doing a battle royal with "Arma" was not the first time Mr. PLAYERUNKNOWN realized, but some things of such content in the form of a single multi-mission were made before. It was thought that "ARMA 2: DayZ Battle Royale Mod" was particularly excellent was the part that was able to reflect the further reality or the "battle loyal" air which was based on the "Day Z" base.
In parallel with the appearance of "ARMA 2: DayZ Battle Royale Mod" in "Arma", the development of the new work "Arma 3" and early access to the alpha version had been done. This "Arma 3" became the official version in September of the same year. Also, shortly after "DayZ" which was proud of the explosive popularity, a story about standalone emerged. As a result of this change, "ARMA 2: DayZ Battle Royale Mod" is also a new Mod 'PLAYERUNKNOWN' which is familiar to everyone as "PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEROYALE (PUBR)" now, "Arma 3 "It appeared in 2014 to the end.
"PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEROYALE (PUBR)" is still available for download from the Steam Workshop and you can also play new. As you can see the video by the user, as you can see entry by aircraft (parachutes do not open automatically, if you do not adjust speed yourself, you will crash the ground), the basic elements of "PUBG" It can be said that you are almost looking at completion at the time. By the way, the aircraft at the start of "PUBR" has been bombarded after the players' descent has started, and it seems that this homage is the place where "PUBG" aircraft crashed.
From the "DayZ" who built the era of the survival genre, a lot of influenced titles were born. "H1Z1" to introduce from now is one such title. "H1Z1" was announced by Daybreak Game which was then "Sony Online Entertainment" in April 2014. From the affiliate of Sony, the information that a very hot zombie survival title will be released at that time gathers great expectations from many gamers.
In the same work which was released as an early access title in January 2015, a certain interpersonal specialization mode was introduced. That is "Battle Royale" mode. In other words, it is a mode that faithfully ported "PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEROYALE". This mode is implemented in a way that Mr. PLAYERUNKNOWN licenses according to the offer from "H1Z1" development, and from this work to the third person main, elements of the fog of poison outside the area became first appearance It was. You can see that it is more like "PUBG" in the user's image etc.
· Go to "H1Z1: King of the Kill"
After that, "H1Z1" will make a decision to split the title, with the delay of development that zombies survival title is prone to fall and the inclination of player preferences to interpersonal. Thus the battle royal mode which was divided as "H1Z1: King of the Kill" is still growing to a title that keeps the number of Steam players high.
■ "PUBG" appeared
After these flows, under the direction of Mr. PLAYERUNKNOWN, "PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS" was supposed to be made as a completely new battle royal title. "PUBG" was first announced at the end of June 2016. At that time, it was announced as a title of 64 players instead of 100 players.
· Limited time closed test
After that, at the end of July 2016, pre-alpha was carried out, while publishing various developed videos etc., "PUBG" proceeded, the first alpha in September of the same year and the second alpha in November were implemented It is. Various updates were done at Alpha, and reports on the participating areas of testers etc. are also released for each test. At that time you can hear that there were few participants from Asia including Japan. You can also see that user size jumped from Alpha 2. (Pre-alpha report, alpha 1 report, alpha 2 report)
Time goes on in 2017, closed from February 24th to March 19th, closed beta is held on weekends only. During the closed beta implementation of the squad, shifting to a 100-person battle where everyone knows well was done. In addition, in the reservation made shortly from March, as a privilege, limited item skin "PLAYERUNKNOWN SET" which is worth more than tens of thousands of yen to 100,000 yen or more at the time of writing this article is distributed I will.
· Start Steam Early Access, and to the Legend
While "PUBG" is closed test, it is difficult to exactly know exactly how the user's transition occurred in the scale, but according to the service "Google Trends" showing Google search interest, "PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS" The search popularity first jumped up from February 19th to the 25th of 2017. This overlaps with the start of the closed beta, and it was the most notable time since March 18th to April 1st just before the beta showed excitement that was unprecedented. Early access to Steam has started from March 23, and from the time immediately after release, it can be said that the popularity of this work has exploded from streaming distribution and reviews, especially explosively.
Also, for Japanese players, "Early access to Japanese" was also very large at the beginning of early access. I think that it is a point that supports an unusual response as PC games that it is more than hundreds of thousands of sales in Japan that I could acquire as a new user without hesitating to interested gamers.
Aside from that, Bohemia Interactive of "Arma" development, which was indispensable to the formation of "PUBG", and PLAYERUNKNOWN are still maintaining that relationship, according to previous overseas interviews etc., "PUBG "Motion capture at least for the moment is done in the company facilities in the Czech Republic. Also, "PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEROYALE" PLAYERUNKNOWN also maintains some of its servers at their own expense.
Looking back on this way, Mr. PLAYERUNKNOWN, who became a momentary person, was not fascinated by the genre called Battle Royale, not the idea man who suddenly received that grace from heaven, and it can not be said that it is an investigator who keeps searching for the way Is it? Mr.'s future success, and where does "PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS" arrive? I can not keep my eyes still.
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